The Law Commission's got a bit of work ahead of it, what with wide-ranging reports on Drugs and Alcohol due to be released any day now. It seems much of the rationale behind Sir Geoffrey Palmer's speeches on these matters is discredited. Indeed, Crampton and Burgess have not only undone BERL's harms index credibility, they have proved what everyone already knows but lacked the numbers; the government makes a very tidy profit off alcohol and tobacco.